If you feel like being a hippie, you can find the "rendering engine for reality" in here: Mandelbrot (1980) – The Mandelbrot Set and fractal geometry Julia (1918) – Memoire sur l'iteration des fonctions rationelles (Julia sets) Meyer (1996) – Quantum Cellular Automata (procedural complexity) Wolfram (1984) – Cellular automata as models of complexity Bak et al. (1987) – Self-organized criticality. Wolfram, Gorard & Crowley (2020) - "A Class of Models with the Potential to Represent Fundamental Physics" - Kari & Culik (2009) - "Universal Pattern Generation by Cellular Automata". Just combine the papers, ofc, that is crazy - but its fun to be a bit crazy sometimes. It's one of my fav thought experiments, just for fun. :)